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noun Slang.

a shop selling paraphernalia of interest to drug users or associated with the use of drugs.

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Origin of head shop

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70

The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.
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The scheme has been condemned by civil liberties groups and queried by the National Association of Head Teachers.
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He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.
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I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head.
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“I usually see people head to the stationary bikes,” Steinbrick says.
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Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
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Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.
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But at the instant I caught a sight of my counterfeit presentment in a shop window, and veiled my haughty crest.
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Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
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She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
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